Last Updated 02-10-2011

• Login
• Account Login – to log into your account, you can use your Nickname, or email address, and then enter the password. Click the Remember this User checkbox if you wish to automatically use these login credentials each time you start StormPowered.

• Retrieve Account Info – if you can’t remember your account info, click on the ‘retrieve account info’ button and a new web browser window will open that looks like this. You can find your account info using either your existing email address, Customer ID, a License ID, Invoice number, or Nickname.

• Create New Account – If you do not already have a StormPowered account, click the ‘Create New Account’ button and fill in all the information requested. Please be sure to use accurate information, you will not be able to change some of it after the account has been created.

• Modifying your Account Info – If for some reason you need to modify your existing account information, at the top of the window, click Manage / Current Account / Customer Service – My Contact Information.

• My Games
• Overview – This is where you manage what games you have installed, on this page, you can Launch a game, activate or deactivate the game, or uninstall the game
• Installing a New Game – To install your games and available trials, go to the Available tab and click the game you want to download. StormPowered will download the game in the background while you keep playing your games. Once Downloaded, simply highlight the game, and select install.
• Launch – To launch a game, select the game you want by right clicking over its icon or title, and either double click, or click the launch button.
• Activate and Deactivate – Activation of a game is only required for when you wish to play in an offline mode. If you wish to play your games while not connected to the internet, select the game you wish to activate (one that you’ve already purchased), and click the activate button. You can only have a certain number of computers activated for offline play at once, but this amount will periodically reset. You can always deactivate the game, allowing you to activate the game on another computer, simply by pressing the deactivate button when you have a game you wish to deactivate selected.
• Online and Offline Mode – If you plan on an extended period of time where you won’t have an internet connection, you can go into offline mode by clicking on Manage / Go Offline. In an offline mode, you will only be able to use the games which you have already activated on that computer.
• Updating your Game – updating is done automatically when you launch a game. The update will be downloaded, and installed automatically. This ensures you have the latest updates for all your games when you want to play them.
• Uninstall – If you want to uninstall a game, select the game you wish to uninstall and press the ‘uninstall’ button at the top of the screen.

• Preferences
• Launch Online – enabling this checkbox will cause StormPowered to always launch in an online mode. If this is not enabled, StormPowered will launch in whatever mode it was in before the previous exit of the program.
• Remember account info – Enabling this checkbox will cause StormPowered to always launch using the account credentials and password of whatever account is logged on already.
• Launch on system startup – enabling this will cause StormPowered to launch when Windows starts.
• Mask passwords­ – enabling this will cause all passwords entered to be masked with **** instead of the character
• Show splash video – enabling this will cause the splash video to show every time you launch StormPowered.

• Community Page
• Forum – The official StormPowered forums.